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1881 HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
Inter-State Publishing Company
Chicago, Illinois, 1881





Page 986

PHILIP W. WEBER, post office, Pawnee, brother of the preceding (George P. Weber), was born in Jefferson county, Virginia, January 28, 1812, and came to this county in 1837. He married Miss Amanda M. Shepherd, who also was born in the same county as he, November 8, 1811. Their five children are all living, viz: John P., born March 19, 1840; Mary E., January 8, 1842; William S., March 11, 1844; Amanda E., March 3, 1846; Sarah C., February 19, 1848; Emma S., November 26, 1851. Mr. Weber was at first a carpenter and millwright; was in California in 1849-50. In 1851, he purchased his present farm, and he now owns two hundred and fifty-seven acres, valued at $50 per acre. Raises stock for market. His son, William S., served in the late war. Mr. and Mrs. W. are members of the M. E. Church, also all their children.

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